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Re:Study finds most unemployed young men have criminal records by dilippkumar on Friday February 18, 2022 @10:25PM (#30394158)
Completely unrelated to the thread but

> I don't really check who's building my websites or little tools I purchase.

How do you sleep at night? Honest question. I want to know the assumptions and reasoning that leads to one being comfortable with this decision.

I’m probably more worried than I should be, but every time I look at my puny little openBSD webserver’s log, I find about 2 to 5 new attempts to scan my server for various exploits a month. Each attempt is a relentless scans looking for all sorts of holes with hundreds of potential exploits. The first time I read those logs, I swore I would never move from openBSD + httpd ever.

The internet is outright hostile to any computer with an ip address and a port open to the internet.

I’m sure there are some companies out there that provide hosting solutions that do a good job at keeping things updated - but even they are defenseless against things like the recent log4j vulnerability (and that’s just the stuff the good guys caught). At the very least, I would want to know who is building my websites and what their track record is.

Re:Study finds most unemployed young men have criminal records by brnt on Saturday February 19, 2022 @02:35AM (#30395127)
So, you never pay for anything on an app store? You host everything on your own hardware?

I am far more worried about the air quality that floats into my home than a website that's hosted somewhere else and isn't connected to anything but its own content.

Re:Study finds most unemployed young men have criminal records by dilippkumar on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @04:14PM (#30433895)
> So, you never pay for anything on an app store?

I buy software from the app store for sure. But I do not pull down .apk binaries from the darkweb and run them on my phone - especially if I don't know who the author was. I doubt most sane people would download and run binaries from random websites (darkweb or not) even today.

> You host everything on your own hardware?

No I don't. I trust my hosting provider, and they have a track record of reputable service, I have a business relationship with them. I would say I know who is hosting my website.

Re:Study finds most unemployed young men have criminal records by HeyLaughingBoy on Friday February 18, 2022 @11:04PM (#30394332)
Some people are natural worriers and others aren't. I'm not. In the end it's probably as simple as that.